Yoga: 12-1 p.m., Mondays starting Jan. 2, for all levels, Westside Yoga Center, $15 drop-in fee/$12 per class with card.
May 13-18, Brave Voice: Writing & Singing For Your Life, co-led with Kelley Hunt, six-day soulful retreat to replenish your creative spirit, White Memorial Camp (registration includes lodging and meals), Council Grove, KS.
June 6, 13 & 20: Your Life as Legacy: Writing Your Life’s Stories, Osher Institute, 2-4 p.m., Wednesdays, Brandon Woods Smith Center. Register here.
June 10, Roots & Blossoms Writing Workshop, 1-5 p.m., for people living with serious illness and/or their caregivers, Turning Point: The Center for Hope & Healing, 8900 Stateline, Mission, KS. Free but pre-registration required.
June 11-July 27, Online Class: Your Calling, Your Livelihood, Your Life, Transformative Language Arts Network, What work calls to you as your own as this point in your life? How can you develop a livelihood — or transform your current livelihood — with your deepest vision, values and voice? In this class, you’ll explore long-term conversations with your callings (in our art, work and life), approaches for exploring and revising myths and messages about who you should be, cultivating spaciousness for your deepest work, hunting and gathering sources and supports, making the work you love come true, and staying engaged with your life’s work as your life shifts and unfolds. Visit the TLA Network to learn more.
July 14th, The Divorce Girl Book Launch, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland. Come join the celebration for this book 17 years in the writing! The launch features a short Havdalah service (welcoming the new week), a reading, and fun and food. The Raven Bookstore will be selling copies of the novel for a 10% discount.
July 21, The Divorce Girl Workshop & Reading, Ad Astra Bookstore, 141 N. Santa Fe, Salina, KS. Come to a workshop called “Wreckage, Wonder & Ways Through: Writing About Life’s Hard Stuff” — a special workshop for writers of poetry, fiction, memoir and journals as well as anyone who wants to write more from their lives for healing and balance — from 4-5:30 p.m. (fee is purchase of The Divorce Girl, one per household) and The Divorce Girl reading 7-8 p.m. Come join us!
July 16 & 23, Deep Summer Writing Workshop, 6-8 p.m., for people living with serious illness and/or their caregivers, Turning Point: The Center for Hope & Healing, 8900 Stateline, Mission, KS. Free but pre-registration required. 
August 1-10, Goddard College’s Individualized MA Program Residency, Plainfield, Vermont. Create MA student according to your calling, community and livelihood, including study in the concentration Caryn coordinates, Transformative Langugage Arts. As part of the residency, Caryn will be giving a reading from The Divorce Girl.
August 26, Turning Points: Writing & Living Through Serious Illness, 2-4 p.m., The Writers Place, 3611 Penn., Kansas City, MO. A reading with several dozen people living with and through cancer, M.S., Parkinson’s, diabetes and other serious illnesses. Come listen to the stories, hope and courage of people making art and making life, even when facing the greatest challenges. A project of Turning Point: The Center for Hope & Healing, featuring participants in Caryn’s workshops.
October 6, Kansas Author’s Club Convention: Keynote Address & Workshop, keynote talk on The Divorce Girl and other writing: “Wreckage, Wonder and Ways Through the Impossible: Writing Life’s Hard Stuff in Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction” and workshop “”These Are the Materials”:The Transformative Power of Fiction,” Ramada Inn & Conference Center, 1616 W. Crawford St., Salina, KS.
Oct. 25-28, Power of Words Conference, Pendle Hill Retreat Center, Philadelphia, PA, featuring Jimmy Santiago Baca and dozens of writers, artists, activists, community leaders,
healers, health professionals, educators and more (including Caryn, who will present a workshop on The Divorce Girl and writing life’s hard stuff). A life-changing, life-charging experience! A project of the Transformative Language Arts Network.
November 17, Iola Family Reading Festival, reading from The Divorce Girl.
December 2, Reading and Book Party for The Divorce Girl,
Tallahassee, FL, details tba.
December 4, Birthday Celebration Reading & Orlando Book Party for The Divorce Girl: If you’re in the Orlando area, join me at my sister Lauren’s house for a book party that also celebrates my birthday (no gifts, please, although books will be for sale). 2731 Dover Glen Cir, Orlando, FL 32828
Stay tuned for The Divorce Girl tour in New Jersey in October; Southern Kansas & Oklahoma in November; Tallahassee FL in December; Tucson in January; and many other places throughout the year. Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor & Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other is coming out in November, so please check back on readings.
